diff --git a/libraries/script-engine/src/BatchLoader.cpp b/libraries/script-engine/src/BatchLoader.cpp
index e6115324c9..ac0cafa6a9 100644
--- a/libraries/script-engine/src/BatchLoader.cpp
+++ b/libraries/script-engine/src/BatchLoader.cpp
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ void BatchLoader::start() {
         } else {
             QString fileName = url.toLocalFile();
 
+            // sometimes on windows, we see the toLocalFile() return null, 
+            // in this case we will attempt to simply use the url as a string
+            if (fileName.isEmpty()) {
+                fileName = url.toString();
+            }
+
             qCDebug(scriptengine) << "Reading file at " << fileName;
 
             QFile scriptFile(fileName);